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From Plastic to Silicone: The Novelties in Porous Polymer Fabrications
Joint Authors
Berro, Soumaya
El Ahdab, Ranim
Hajj Hassan, Houssein
Khachfe, Hassan M.
Hajj-Hassan, Mohamad
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-21, 21 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-05-12
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
21
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Porous polymers are gaining increased interest in several areas due, in great part, to their large surface area and unique physiochemical properties.
Porous polymers are conventionally manufactured using specific processes related to the chemical structure of each polymer.
With the wide variety of porous polymers that have been designed, fabricated, and tested to date, this review aims to provide an overview of the advances and recent progress in the preparation processes and fabrication techniques.
A detailed comparison between these techniques is also provided.
Some of these techniques offer the advantage of controlling the porosity and the possibility to obtain porous 3D polymers.
A new generic fabrication process that can be applied to all liquid polymers to texture their outer surfaces with a desired porosity is also presented.
The proposed process, which is based on two micromolding steps, offers flexibility in terms of tailoring the texture of the final polymer by simply using porous silicon templates with different pore sizes and configurations.
The anticipated process was successfully implemented to texture polyethyl hydrosiloxane (PMHS) using porous silicon and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) scaffolds.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Berro, Soumaya& El Ahdab, Ranim& Hajj Hassan, Houssein& Khachfe, Hassan M.& Hajj-Hassan, Mohamad. 2015. From Plastic to Silicone: The Novelties in Porous Polymer Fabrications. Journal of Nanomaterials،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1068762
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Berro, Soumaya…[et al.]. From Plastic to Silicone: The Novelties in Porous Polymer Fabrications. Journal of Nanomaterials No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-21.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Berro, Soumaya& El Ahdab, Ranim& Hajj Hassan, Houssein& Khachfe, Hassan M.& Hajj-Hassan, Mohamad. From Plastic to Silicone: The Novelties in Porous Polymer Fabrications. Journal of Nanomaterials. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1068762
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1068762